Reasons for Your Site Getting Slow!

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Reasons for Your Site Getting Slow!
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Fast and Steady wins the race

• A popular proverb says that Slow and steady wins
  the race, but it doesnt seem to be valid for
  website speed.

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Losing Business

• The failure here is not just losing the race but
  also a business.
• So make sure you identify the reasons for your
  website being too slow and rectify them as early
  as possible.

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Un-optimized images

• Un-optimized images have been the most common
  cause for your website getting slow.
• Generally, full-sized images consume a lot of
  bandwidth when they are loading.

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Un-optimized images

• Consider changing the image format as it reduces
  the size significantly.
• Finally, reduce the picture quality. It doesnt
  mean you are making the picture look bad.
• You are just altering the settings to reduce the
  size.

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Excessive Fancy Flash

• Fancy is definitely a fun but not always!
• Flash is considered as a sumo wrestler of
  software as it is bulky and huge.
• Excessive usage of flash in your website can slow
  down your website significantly.

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Bulky Code

• Most of the coders consider adding a white space
  in order to make the pages more readable.
• But you can maintain the readability even without
  much of the white spaces in the code.

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External Media Usage

• External media also reducing website speed.
• If you feel that any particular video or a
  slideshow is relevant to your site but you need
  to think twice before embedding someone elses
  media into your site.

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External Media Usage

• When you embed some external media into your
  site, you site starts running as fast as the host
  site.
• If the host site is running slowly, even your
  site will run in the same speed.

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• Its not that the entire has to be plain but it
  certainly has to load faster as the slower
  websites might be a main reason for you losing
  your business.

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